Mason juxtaposes the worn with the well-loved. Tying her initial imagination of what Montana would look like, small towns and cattle ranchers, with the reality of what that lifestyle appears to be through her eyes. Taking photos of western ranchers in her search for understanding. How these two worlds collide in the open grassland of Montana. One side is worn, broken, fading, and in desperate need of repair. The other is of memory, of hard work, and of new beginnings in the everyday monotony. Where the same cattle shed stands year in and year out grasses grow bright green in the spring and wither brown in the autumn. This endless cycle of life and death makes one question how a person could love this life. But in these rolling ups and downs there is beauty in the details. The well-used and abandoned looking barn or the worn frame of a shed show these stories. Mason’s work captures these waves of life, of birth and death in the open grasslands of the Big Sky Country. She connects this lifestyle with the passion of the work and contrasts it against the decaying reality of the western dream.